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Re:Lego has designed a set that can't be taken apart by Jon_Lowtek on Friday December 03, 2021 @05:33PM (#29436457)
for the uninitiated: rounded rectangles as a shape for phones is an apple design patent, they sued samsung for that
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Re:Lego has designed a set that can't be taken apart by mountainb on Saturday December 04, 2021 @08:51AM (#29440817)
They have one for their charger shapes as well among many other things.
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Re:Lego has designed a set that can't be taken apart by ekianjo on Friday December 03, 2021 @10:14PM (#29438352)
A patent is for products not for logos
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Re:Lego has designed a set that can't be taken apart by Jon_Lowtek on Friday December 03, 2021 @10:37PM (#29438473)
Yes design patents are different from trademarks and the apple rounded rectangle phone design is a US design patent while the 2x2 lego brick is registered in the EU as a 3d trademark. Filing for a trademark on a shop name and logo may not be as easily challenged with only an existing design patent and no matching trademark.

So yes, the metaphor in the parent is faulty in that small detail when it picks up the metaphor created in the grandparent to better explain what is going on.

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